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RE: Package review status
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: "Cygwin-apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:11:08 +0100
- Subject: RE: Package review status
> >>>*Updated* packages are trusted by default. They can be uploaded w/o
> >>>review.
> >>>
> >>>
> >Not being funny, but this probably shouldn't be the case. I could easily
> >spoof some mail headers and get a compromised binary uploaded.
> >
> Then I suggest you (and other that find in this a security problem) to
> comment my latest RFC (23/09 13:54 CEST) which tried to resurrect the
> old thread about using GPG for developers ;-)
There is also the problem that original binaries form new contributors may
be compromised. They might sign their e-mail with their GPG key and have it
trusted by someone else, but what if I've engineered a binary to go off a
month after my post to do something nasty?
Chris